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Beyond the Image: Palestine Benefit Exhibition

8.14.2026 6:00 PM

777 E 3rd St, 10003

All Street Gallery and Shadowbanned Magazine are pleased to present Beyond the Image: A Benefit Exhibition for the Sameer Project, a group exhibition bringing together eleven artists whose work examines how images of the Middle East and its diasporas get made — and who has the power to make them. A portion of proceeds from sales will benefit The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid initiative delivering food, water, medical care, and shelter to displaced families across Gaza. Working across painting, sculpture, digital collage, manipulated generative imagery, printmaking, textiles, and text, the artists in Beyond the Image treat representation not as a record to be recovered but as a process to be exposed. Their materials — family photographs, colonial archives, inherited visual traditions, political symbols, found letters, manipulated generative imagery — are shaped by memory, power, and omission. The exhibition asks what these materials reveal when they are fragmented, obscured, woven, or made strange, rather than smoothed into a single legible picture. Across the exhibition's many practices and materials, Beyond the Image resists a single expectation: that an image should give uncomplicated access to a person, a place, or a history. Faces stay intimate but partly unreadable. Archives illuminate and erase in the same gesture. Technologies sold as new turn out to inherit old habits of looking. The exhibition treats this not as representation's failure but as its actual condition — and proposes that the way through it is not a clearer picture, but a more honest account of what any picture leaves out.

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